Program areas at Lunch Break
Lunch Break's food operations include: i) your choice pantry & ii) community kitchen. Your choice pantry is a food pantry that provides fresh produce and other healthy food goods to local residents via a communal distribution center. Community kitchen offers free, hot meals daily provided by a fully staffed kitchen that utilizes fresh and healthy ingredients. The organization is seeing increased demand for its food assistance programs as rising costs are putting financial stress on local families. Lunchbreak has also experienced rising costs of its food operations through fiscal year 2023 and relies on the generosity of its donor community to support their essential mission.
Additional lunchbreak offerings include like skills, clara's closet, youth services, health & wellness, womyn's worth and other services. Life skills provides personalized assistance for job readiness, resume building, professional presentation, interview prep, and effective communication. Clara's closet is community-driven and dedicated to collecting, sorting, and sharing gently worn clothing with those who need it most. Youth services aims to grow brighter futures with access to resources and opportunities to the young people of our community. Health and wellness programing aims to support and improve the overall health of the Lunch Break community. Womyn's worth is a specific program that offers life coaching and personal development to the women of our community.
Lunch Break's family promise of monmouth county (lbfpmc) housing program is a comprehensive case management program designed to support families at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Preventing families from falling into homelessness is an essential part of lbfpmc mission. Housing stability is the overall goal of all lbfpmc programs. Every family is assigned a case manager to help either prevent homeless or find and move into permanent housing as quickly as possible. Once moved into permanent housing, lbfpmc provides families training & other opportunities to continue improving household income, support networks and overall wellbeing. In 2023 168 adults & 269 children were supported through these programs.
Who funds Lunch Break
Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
Personnel at Lunch Break
| Name | Title | Compensation | Date of data |
|---|
| Philip Antoon | Chief Business Officer | $0 | 2023-01-25 |
| Gwendolyn O Love | Executive Director | $228,461 | 2023-12-31 |
| Kevin McGee | Director of Operations | $112,640 | 2023-12-31 |
| Millie Jeter | Director of Administration | | 2023-01-25 |
| Sharda Jetwani Love | Program Director of Administr | | 2023-01-25 |
| ...and 12 more key personnel |
Financials for Lunch Break
| Revenues | FYE 12/2023 | FYE 12/2022 | % Change |
|---|
| Total grants, contributions, etc. | $5,109,350 | $4,896,161 | 4.4% |
| Program services | $42,650 | $67,979 | -37.3% |
| Investment income and dividends | $427,188 | $213,570 | 100% |
| Tax-exempt bond proceeds | $0 | $0 | - |
| Royalty revenue | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net rental income | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $-90,541 | $-110,635 | 18.2% |
| Net income from fundraising events | $-51,096 | $0 | -999% |
| Net income from gaming activities | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net income from sales of inventory | $0 | $0 | - |
| Miscellaneous revenues | $39,769 | $4,375 | 809% |
| Total revenues | $5,477,320 | $5,071,450 | 8% |
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|---|
| Bread for the City | 501(c)(3) | Washington, DC | $21,008,594 |
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| Gather | 501(c)(3) | Portsmouth, NH | $6,011,308 |
| Meals on Wheels San Diego County | 501(c)(3) | San Diego, CA | $9,136,190 |
| Daily Bread | 501(c)(3) | Melbourne, FL | $3,012,990 |
| Meals on Wheels Western Michigan | 501(c)(3) | Grandville, MI | $8,038,499 |
| Interfaith Neighbors | 501(c)(3) | Asbury Park, NJ | $6,244,942 |
| Meals on Wheels People | 501(c)(3) | Portland, OR | $17,657,956 |
| Second Helpings | 501(c)(3) | Indianapolis, IN | $11,128,899 |
| Meals on Wheels of Greenville | 501(c)(3) | Greenville, SC | $3,258,537 |
Data update history
November 29, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2023
November 26, 2024
Updated personnel
Identified 4 new personnel
November 26, 2024
Received grants
Identified 11 new grant, including a grant for $340,000 from The Tepper Foundation November 25, 2024
Used new vendors
Identified 2 new vendors, including , and
Nonprofit Types
Human service organizationsFood banksHeadquarter / parent organizationsCharities
Issues
Human servicesFood and nutritionHunger
Characteristics
Fundraising eventsReceives government fundingEndowed supportCommunity engagement / volunteeringGala fundraisersTax deductible donationsAccepts online donations
General information
- Address
- 121 DRS James Parker Blvd
- Red Bank, NJ 07701
- Metro area
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
- County
- Monmouth County, NJ
- Website URL
- lunchbreak.org/Â
- Phone
- (732) 747-8577
- Facebook page
- Lunch-BreakÂ
- Twitter profile
- @lunchbreakrbÂ
IRS details
- EIN
- 22-2440028
- Fiscal year end
- December
- Taxreturn type
- Form 990
- Year formed
- 1983
- Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
- Yes
Categorization
- NTEE code, primary
- P00: Human Services: General
- NAICS code, primary
- 624210: Community Food Services
- Parent/child status
- Central organization
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